Re: individual submission Last Call -- default yes/no.

2005-01-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
What John says below is good sense and IMHO should put the discussion of this subject to bed (ignoring subthreads where people have gone off on to other topics without changing the subject field). The phrase Last Call has built-in semantics. If something is sufficiently straightforward that the

Re: IASA Finances - an attempt at some uplevelling

2005-01-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
All of which suggests to me that Harald's contentious last sentence should simply be removed. btw I agree with all his other suggested changes. Brian John C Klensin wrote: --On Monday, 10 January, 2005 14:07 -0500 Leslie Daigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, I believe Harald meant

IASA removability - rephrase IAOC role

2005-01-11 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
I think I should apologize for including a modification to the IAOC role in the removability clause in a discussion of finances. It is not relevant to that topic. But the discussion pointed out to me that there is some strangeness here - in that the IAOC is described as having a role in the

RE: individual submission Last Call -- default yes/no.

2005-01-11 Thread Misha Wolf
Vernon Schryver wrote: [some lines re-wrapped] vs Please credit some of us with understanding the meaning of vs escalate in the intended sense of evoke to an authority that vs will issue a writ of mandamus. *I* certainly did not intend such a meaning. Maybe I used the wrong word; if so I

Re: IASA removability - rephrase IAOC role

2005-01-11 Thread Leslie Daigle
Yep, I think that's the right fix. Leslie. Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: I think I should apologize for including a modification to the IAOC role in the removability clause in a discussion of finances. It is not relevant to that topic. But the discussion pointed out to me that there is some

The process/WG/BCP/langtags mess...

2005-01-11 Thread Addison Phillips [wM]
I generally agree with many of the observations about what the IETF process should probably be. I also observe that there is a process for individual submissions, which Mark and I have scrupulously followed. We ask that the IETF community consider our work on its merits, not just on its

RE: individual submission Last Call -- default yes/no.

2005-01-11 Thread Misha Wolf
Hi John, Your mail [1] puzzles me. I don't think I suggested that the W3C is developing language tags. On the contrary, I wrote [2]: | The W3C is highly dependent on the RFC 1766/3066 family of RFCs, | as language-handling in HTML and XML is delegated to these RFCs. | Within the W3C, the

Re: The process/WG/BCP/langtags mess...

2005-01-11 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: Addison Phillips [wM] [EMAIL PROTECTED] In fact we feel that we've been very considerate and open in the development of this draft in the language tagging community and continue to be open to comments and criticism, no matter the source. Based on what I have seen in

Re: The process/WG/BCP/langtags mess...

2005-01-11 Thread Sam Hartman
Vernon == Vernon Schryver [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vernon If the advocates for this I-D were really trying to follow Vernon the IETF's processes, they would have taken one of the Vernon suggestions for the next step and temporarily (or Vernon permanently) retired from the field.

Authors soliciting comments

2005-01-11 Thread Fred Baker
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:36:10 -0500 Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-baker-alert-system-00.txt A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Structure of an International Emergency Alert System Author(s) : F. Baker, B.

draft-phillips-langtags-08.txt

2005-01-11 Thread Ted Hardie
The last call on this draft has ended. I appreciate all of the technical comments raised in response to this draft. The IESG will work with the authors to resolve those issues and determine the next steps. regards, Ted Hardie

Re: The process/WG/BCP/langtags mess...

2005-01-11 Thread Sam Hartman
Vernon == Vernon Schryver [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Sam Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, currently this draft is in Ted's hands. It makes no sense for people to withdraw drafts or to make any hasty decisions at all. Vernon That's fine, but does suggest some questions:

Re: The process/WG/BCP/langtags mess...

2005-01-11 Thread Peter Constable
From: Vernon Schryver [EMAIL PROTECTED] In fact we feel that we've been very considerate and open in the development of this draft in the language tagging community and continue to be open to comments and criticism, no matter the source. Based on what I have seen in

Re: The process/WG/BCP/langtags mess...

2005-01-11 Thread Peter Constable
From: Vernon Schryver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The process/WG/BCP/langtags mess... That's fine, but does suggest some questions: - Is the Last Call over? - If so, was its result no supporting consensus? - If the result was no supporting consensus, will the current document

Re: The process/WG/BCP/langtags mess...

2005-01-11 Thread Bruce Lilly
Date: 2005-01-11 13:33 From: Addison Phillips [wM] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Addressing some issues not covered by others: In this case we have developed an I-D which would like to obsolete an existing BCP which itself obsoletes a BCP. The I-D was developed using the exact same process,

Definitions, names, and confusion

2005-01-11 Thread Bruce Lilly
In recent discussion of a proposed replacement of a BCP RFC, a couple of problems have reappeared: 1. There seems to be a fairly wide misunderstanding of what BCP RFCs are supposed to cover. Part of the problem is that Best Current Practice isn't a terribly good name for the sort of

Re: individual submission Last Call -- default yes/no.

2005-01-11 Thread Bruce Lilly
Date: 2005-01-11 05:17 From: Misha Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] My understanding of the purpose of the IETF/W3C Liaison group is, precisely, liaison over issues of importance to both the IETF and the W3C. Since the draft-philips-... effort isn't an IETF effort, exactly who would represent the

Re: The process/WG/BCP/langtags mess...

2005-01-11 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 11 January, 2005 17:55 -0500 Sam Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Procedurally speaking the responsible AD (Ted in this case) decides what to do next. He can ask for revisions; he can talk to the authors; he can try to create a working group; he can tell the authors he

Re: Confused about references to I-D when the RFC is published

2005-01-11 Thread Leslie Daigle
I will admit to having been a little more focused, during AUTH48, on making sure that the document got back to saying what it had said when it entered the RFC Editor queue some 5 months earlier. Leslie. John C Klensin wrote: --On Sunday, 09 January, 2005 22:22 +0100 Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL

Re: Authors soliciting comments

2005-01-11 Thread Greg Daley
Hi Fred, I've previously worked with the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) here in Australia, and they propagate several of these type of warnings between meteorological, seismic and aviation agencies here and around the world using message switching systems. The Internet is used for dissemination in a

Re: Authors soliciting comments

2005-01-11 Thread Petre Dini
Unfortunately, I don't believe that there is an actively monitored tsunami service in the Indian ocean, which may have been able to transfer such warnings. There is no such a system in the Indian Ocean. There is a big impending initiative to have one in place. -- Petre The role of a generic,

Re: Authors soliciting comments

2005-01-11 Thread Fred Baker
At 04:54 PM 01/12/05 +1100, Greg Daley wrote: Unfortunately, I don't believe that there is an actively monitored tsunami service in the Indian ocean, which may have been able to transfer such warnings. The role of a generic, authenticated, internet-based warning system may be useful in future

Re: [manet] WG Review: Recharter of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (manet)

2005-01-11 Thread Alex Zinin
Guys, The topic is no doubt interesting. We do, however, need to scope the work. Two routing protocols and a flooding mechanism are already enough for one WG. Options: a) wait until MANET is done and bring the topic then, and b) create another mailing list, bring the topic there, see if

Last Call: 'The wais URI Scheme' to Historic

2005-01-11 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'The wais URI Scheme ' draft-hoffman-wais-uri-03.txt as a Historic The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send any comments